Conan Gray
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Demographics
Gender Male
Birth Name Conan Lee Gray
Birthplace San Diego, California, U.S.
Birth Date December 5, 1998
Ethnicity East Asian, Northwestern European
Father Irish
Mother Japanese
Nationality American
Career Singer, songwriter, social media personality
Color Season True Winter
Notes and Motifs
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Gray: “I give everything that people need to know through the songs.”
Gray: “For me and my friends – especially Gen Z as a whole – we handle pain in a very specific way of laughing it off. That’s how I’ve always been. In any of my songs – especially the bigger pop songs – I hide as much pain in the lyrics as I can. But I also have so much fun writing fun songs so even if I’m in the mood to write a fun song, it’s probably still gonna be pretty depressing.”
Gray: “I would have loved to have heard a song telling me that it was OK to feel all the crazy emotions that I was feeling.”
Gray: “Ideally, I wish not to be perceived at all. But I am very perceived by a lot of people. I’m very shy and awkward and I get very anxious around people, which is very ironic that this is my life.”
[On the first time he preformed live on stage]
Gray: “I remember walking up on stage and everyone started screaming and clapping and I think in that moment I was like, ‘I’m safe here, all these people are going to be nice to me’.”
Gray: “Putting out the album out of my bedroom felt oddly comfortable and right because I wrote the whole album in my bedroom. I’ve always written songs out of my bedroom just by myself so it felt like the right way.”
Gray: "I would say anyone who knows me intimately would say that I’m kind of dramatic."
Gray: “I guess if anything, I wish I could have told 14-year-old Conan to just shut up and stop putting everything on the internet all the time, but I guess it’s mostly just embarrassing in the same way that when someone comes over to your house you don’t want your mum to show them all your baby photos.”
Gray: “I love touring and I love writing music more than anything on earth so I’ll never stop, but I think one day I’ll learn how to have a good balance. The opposite side of the spectrum will definitely be me buying a big ranch in the middle of Texas and getting a horse and not speaking for half of the year.”
Gray: “Lorde was the first person who was like, ‘I live in the suburbs’. It was the first time I heard someone say something that I actually understood. That’s when I started to understand that I could write music just about my life.”
Gray: “I feel like I give so much of myself in the music that I don’t really show too much of myself and my personal life on the internet.”
Gray: “That’s why I write about them all the time! My ideal state in life would be to be completely invisible and just watch people and see the way they live their lives.”
Gray: “I feel everything super intensely. I feel like the people who listen to my music are the same way, so I don’t feel alone. I’d much rather feel everything super intensely than feel nothing at all.”